Posted on Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 6:17 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
As we shared a few days ago, Fedora 13 will provide OpenGL
acceleration support for NVIDIA graphics cards via the Nouveau driver
when installing the Mesa DRI experimental drivers package. There is
finally 3D acceleration for NVIDIA graphics cards using an open-source
driver on Linux without having to depend upon NVIDIA's official binary
driver. What makes this open-source 3D support for NVIDIA GPUs even more
interesting is that it is atop the Gallium3D driver architecture rather
than classic Mesa. With that said, we are providing early benchmarks of
the Nouveau Gallium3D driver in Fedora 13 with two GeForce graphics
cards as we compare the performance to NVIDIA's official Linux driver.
Read more
at Phoronix.
